A man dancing at a village fiesta in Majorca, who everyone thought was dead. Another man pushed to his death from a cliff top path, just as he’s sending Chief Inspector Macdonald a photo he’d taken with his mobile phone of the first man dancing. A photo so damaged in the sending, it leaves the person in it unrecognisable. The body of a third man. Dead from a drug overdose. Found in the outhouse of a cottage in Shropshire. A death linked in some way to that of the first. But how? It’s said that there might be another body. That Chief Inspector Macdonald has finally been taken out of the game. Or is he still there where he always was? In the background, pulling the strings.